Last Wednesday evening many City Park neighbors attended a presentation by those putting on Chive Fest, a ticketed, admission-based event in our City Park. The question asked but never answered was how this event or any like it benefits our park, our neighborhood, our community. The presenters said more than once that the objective of Chive in this endeavor was to “give back to the community,” but Chive Fest is viewed by many in attendance as deleterious to the community.

YourHub reported that the city will receive 15 percent of the anticipated gross ticket sales of 7,500. At $77 a ticket, that is about $86,000. That might be the answer to the question of why the City Council decided to allow ticketed events in our public parks. However, my question to the council would be whether that amount, or any amount, is sufficient to warrant a policy of utilization that alters the concept of free access to any of our city parks in favor of allowing private, for-profit organizations to restrict that access and charge for doing it.

David Swan, Denver

This letter was published in the Aug. 5 edition.

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Thank you to Susan Barnes-Gelt for her candid analysis of Denver’s assault on its cherished historic places.

The proposal to redesign the northwest corner of City Park is just plain wacky and criminal. Parking is already at a premium at the zoo and at the Museum of Nature & Science. The noise impact on the animals would be disastrous, while the aesthetic nature of City Park would be destroyed.

Please, Mr. Mayor and council members, if you have any sense of decency, cancel this toxic proposal.

Jenene Stookesberry, Denver

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